What's Happening?
This quote is an example of this part of the plot:
"The setting is a small town in the middle of June. The townspeople are preparing for their annual lottery."
What is exposition?
The protagonist of The Cask of Amontillado.
Who is Montresor?
The type of figurative language in this quote:
“They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes.”
What is a simile?
The Chinese cultural value respresented by Yeh-Shen in this passage:
So the time passed and spring came. Festival time was approaching. It was the busiest time of the year. Such cooking and cleaning and sewing there was to be done! Yeh-Shen had hardly a moments rest.
What is hard-working?
A significant idea/statement that the story is making about society, human nature, or the human condition
What is a theme?
This quote is an example of this part of the plot:
"Tessie Hutchinson gets stoned to death."
What is the falling action/conclusion?
The minor character in The Cask of Amontillado.
Who is Luchresi?
The type of figurative language used in the following quote:
“I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.”
What is a metaphor?
The Zimbabwean cultural value that Nyasha demontrates in this passage:
"Mufaro knew nothing of how Manyara treated Nyasha. Nyasha was too considerate of her father’s feeling to complain."
What is obedience to one's parents?
A one word important subject that presented or revealed in the story. It is not the same as theme, but can be a starting point in naming the theme.
What is a topic?
The moment in "Test" that this quote foreshadows:
“Up ahead he saw a great truck, spouting a geyser of smoke as it sped along the Turnpike. Behind it, not passing it, was a long blue convertible, content to drive in the wake of the truck. Robert Proctor noted the arrangement and filed it in the back of his mind.”
What is the car accident?
At the beginning of the story, Montresor wants revenge on Fortunato for insulting his family’s name. At the end of the story, Montresor expresses that he feels a little guilty for killing Fortunato. Montresor is a . . .
What is a dynamic character?
The sense that is being appealed to in the following example of sensory imagery:
“The world ground to a standstill. The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether.”
What is hearing?
The Russian cultural value that the doll is portraying in this passage:
So Vasilisa was thrown out into the dark forbidding forest. Despite her fear, she fed her magic doll and asked for its advice.
"Don't be afraid, Vasilisa," said the doll. "Go to Baba-Yaga and ask her to give you a light."
What is strength/resilience?
The theme is a statement of what the ____________ believes.
Who is the author?
This quote is an example of this part of the plot:
"The Hutchinson family waits to see who draws the paper with the black circle. They reveal that it is Tessie."
What is the climax?
At the beginning of the story, Fortunato is an arrogant man who thinks he knows everything about wine. At the end of the story, Fortunato’s arrogance leads him to be tricked by Montresor. Fortunato is a . . .
What is a static character?
The sense that is being appealed to in the following example of imagery:
“She was a very frail girl who looked that she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.”
What is sight?
The Algonquin cultural value that Oochigeaskw is portraying in this passage:
"Having no clothes beyond a few rags, and knowing that she would get nothing from her sisters, Oochigeaskw went to the woods and got herself a few sheets of birch bark. She made herself a dress and leggings of this, and decorated it by scraping figures on the bark."
What is using/celebrating nature?
True or false: the theme is the lesson that the reader is meant to learn.
What is false?
This quote is an example of this part of the plot:
"Robert wakes up and realizes the car accident was a simulation."
What is the rising action?
The kind of characterization used in the following passage:
“Fortunato was a strong man, a man to be feared.”
What is direct characterization?
The type of figurative language used in this quote: “[Venus] was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring. It was the color of rubber and ash, this jungle, from the many years without sun. It was the color of stones and white cheeses and ink, and it was the color of the moon.”
What is a metaphor?
"The problem with single stories is not that they are wrong - it is that they are ________________"
What is incomplete?
The theme statement of The Lottery.
What is "Tradition that goes unquestioned can be dangerous"?